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12-Pc Interlocking Deck Tiles 12" x 12", Black
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12-Pc Interlocking Deck Tiles 12" x 12", Black

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Polypropylene is the reason to choose this pack over the soft PVC version at nearly the same size. It is rigid, so a wheel or a jack stand does not leave a mark in it, and it is odorless, which matters in a closed garage in August when PVC is still announcing itself. Twelve tiles at a full foot square is twelve square feet with no arithmetic: four rows of three covers a doorway, a shower floor or the wet corner where the hose lives.

Quantity
12 tiles, 12 x 12 in
Coverage
12 sq ft
Material
Heavy-duty polypropylene
Pegs
0.65 in (17 mm)

How it lives in the room

Four rows of three, no cutting

A full twelve-inch tile is the quiet advantage of the polypropylene range. Any area measured in whole feet lays out with no trimmed row at all, which on a twelve-tile patch is the difference between ten minutes and an afternoon with a jigsaw. Measure the space in feet first; if it comes out at three by four, two by six or a straight twelve-foot run, this pack fits it exactly.

Let the 17 mm gap breathe

The deeper peg height in the rigid range is only useful if the water underneath has somewhere to go. On a slab with a fall to a drain or an open edge it works as intended. Boxed in on all four sides by walls or a raised threshold, the gap becomes a reservoir that stays damp between rinses, and the tile is then doing nothing the bare floor was not already doing.

Then park something heavy on it

This is the pack to test with the load you actually have. Roll a full wheelbarrow across it, stand the mower on it, leave a propane cylinder in one corner for a fortnight and look at the face afterward. Rigid polypropylene should come back unmarked where soft PVC would hold a dimple, and twelve tiles is a small enough patch to find that out before committing a whole garage bay.

Before you order

Rigid tiles do not conform to a bad floor. On a cracked or dished slab they bridge the low spots and rock underfoot, and the clicking gets worse as the tabs work. Level the worst dips with a patching compound first, or choose the soft PVC version.